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• "There is only a certain amount of time these guys can work in this, and some people get cold quicker than others," Hendershot said. "Everybody talks about how much money an oil worker is paid. They earn it."
• Daryl Andersen, a North Dakota native and 30-year oilman who now runs a well-services company, recalled his grade-school history books that described how George Washington and his army suffered at Valley Forge.
• "But we're colder here than they ever were," he said.
• North Dakota's notorious cold isn't a deterrent for Dylan Grossman, a 23-year-old Alaska native who posted a Craigslist ad seeking a laborer's job in the oil fields. Grossman is currently in Florida, where he's struggled to find work. He said he intends to move to North Dakota soon and has asked his mother to mail him his warmest clothes.
• "I've heard it's cold and flat in North Dakota," Grossman said. "I think I can layer for it."
• Hovet, who grew up in North Dakota, has heard that before. He recalls four Texans walking off a job site after being in North Dakota for just one day last winter.
• "It was about 5 above and sunny and really kind of a pretty day," Hovet said. "They got their truck stuck in a ditch, and their equipment got frozen up. They said, 'The heck with this. We're going back to Texas.'"
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Board of Regents says a new study shows the state needs to produce more university graduates to deal with the threat of a shortage of qualified workers.
• The study indicates that 72 percent of resident students remain in South Dakota the year following college graduation to work or pursue additional education. A third of out-of-state students who attend South Dakota public universities also stay in the state.
• Regents Executive Director Jack Warner says the six state-run universities are placing more people in jobs as enrollment grows.
• But Warner says that although 41,000 new jobs are expected to be created in South Dakota between 2008 and 2018, the state's homegrown workforce will shrink because South Dakota's population between the ages of 14 and 44 will not grow.
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